Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
by Rae Greiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of thinking along with them. By abstracting emotions,...
From Music to Mathematics
Exploring the Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Taking a "music first" approach, Gareth E. Roberts's From Music to Mathematics will inspire students to learn important, interesting, and at times advanced mathematics. Ranging from a discussion of the geometric sequences and series found in the rhythmic structure of music to the phase-shifting...
by Guenter B. Risse
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city’s Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. Guenter B. Risse’s history of an epidemic is the first to incorporate...
The Ephemeral History of Perfume
Scent and Sense in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves...
Wealth and Disaster
Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 1729, Marc-Antoine Lamerenx, a minor French nobleman, set sail for Saint-Domingue. Twenty years later, peasant Jean Mouscardy also made the long and difficult journey to Saint-Domingue. Although the men were not related and had little in common, they hailed from the same Pyrenean town, La Bastide...
Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Content, Form, Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
During the twentieth century, many artists and writers turned to abstract mathematical ideas to help them realize their aesthetic ambitions. Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and, perhaps most famously, Piet Mondrian used principles of mathematics in their work. Was it mere coincidence, or were these artists...
Apogee of Empire
Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain by the mid-eighteenth century was facing fierce competition from England and France. England, in particular, had successfully mustered the financial resources necessary to confront its Atlantic rivals by mobilizing both aristocracy and merchant bourgeoisie...
The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor
My Years at the CDC
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In its seventy years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has evolved from a malaria control program to an institution dedicated to improving health for all people across the world. The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor is a revealing account of the CDC’s development by its...
From Little London to Little Bengal
Religion, Print, and Modernity in Early British India, 1793–1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
From Little London to Little Bengal traces the traffic in culture between Britain and India during the Romantic period. To some, Calcutta appeared to be a "Little London," while in London itself an Indianized community of returned expatriates was emerging as "Little Bengal." Circling...
by Michael P. Federici
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
America’s first treasury secretary and one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton stands as one of the nation’s important early statesmen. Michael P. Federici places this Founding Father among the country’s original political philosophers as well.
Hamilton remains...
Remembering the Crusades
Myth, Image, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Few events in European history generated more historical, artistic, and literary responses than the conquest of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099. This epic military and religious expedition, and the many that followed it, became part of the collective memory of communities in Europe,...
Beaked Whales
A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Beaked whales have been shrouded in mystery for most of the twentieth century. Denizens of deep, remote ocean waters and highly resistant to life in captivity, they have proven notoriously difficult for humans to observe. Over the past few decades, however, scientists have gained a better understanding...
Psychology Comes to Harlem
Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed explorations of racial ideology and segregationist practice. Jay Garcia’s probing look at how and why these critiques arose and the changes they wrought demonstrates...
The Slain Wood
Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth...